Self-Organizing Man

My pal, Andy, from Spicy Cauldron, shared some wisdom with me about blogging and writing and story telling.

Blogging, for me, is experience, discipline, freedom, practice,
reinforcement and reassurance - when I see what I’ve written, now an
impressively large body of work I hope, I feel that maybe one day I will
write that novel, I will get that poetry collection published. Ultimately,
though, writing is it’s own incentive. I sometimes wonder if writing is
simply the most commonly exhibited form of autistic behaviour when it’s a
novelist or poet over someone who just writes occasionally. For me, it’s a
blood thing. I am a slave to the letters. The thing I say to anyone who asks
me, though, how I write, is this: everyone has experiences and stories,
emotions and opinions, inside them. If you want to write, you write. You
don’t waste time worrying about what’s going to happen once it’s over. Just enjoy the ride. (Emphasis mine)

Writing while solitary in its execution, is in so many wonderful ways, communal.  Thanks Andy for sharing your experiences with me.  Please, everyone, check out Andy’s blog.  Very spirited, intelligent, wry, compassionate.